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By Steve Huff in homicide, serial killers
Wednesday, Feb. 4 2009 @ 8:24PM

Strange video Joseph Duncan made when he was shamming as a 'normal' computer student at a North Dakota university.

Serial child killer and molester Joseph Edward Duncan III is in California, facing yet another murder rap. From the Seattle Times's crime blog, "The Blotter": 

Duncan, 45, faces the death penalty if convicted on Riverside County charges that he kidnapped, tortured and murdered Anthony Martinez of Beaumont in 1997. Anthony was abducted by a stranger while playing in an alley with his brother. The boy's body was found 15 days later south of Joshua Tree National Park, bound with duct tape and partially covered in rocks in a ravine.

The suspect sketch of Anthony's abductor was pretty much a dead ringer for Duncan. Chances are Duncan will be convicted for this crime -- it fits his m.o., and a partial fingerprint found at the crime scene matched the convicted sex offender as well.

No matter what, Duncan already faces the death penalty after his conviction for the May, 2005 murders of the Groene family in Coeur d'Alene, Idaho, as well as the abduction and murder of Dylan Groene.

There is a little-known term that seems to apply perfectly to Duncan, and I'm surprised that I never see it used to describe him. I mainly wrote this blog post to introduce readers to that word, because it so clearly defines a relatively uncommon but truly terrifying type of human predator.

Mind you, there are overlaps between psychiatric definitions, so no single term will be 100% accurate, but Duncan seems like an perfect example of what profiling literature might call a mysoped.

The following is from a Criminal Psychology webpage published by the College of Saint Benedict:

Preferential child molesters

[...]

Subtypes:

Mysoped child molester and killer

  1. Sadist; has made the connection between sexual gratification and personal violence
  2. Usually male
  3. Typically the victim is a stranger to the aggressor
  4. May stalk the child rather than use a form of seduction; may take victim by force using his size as an advantage
  5. Abducts children from playgrounds, schools, shopping centers, and other places children gather
  6. Has no "love" for children; only interested in causing harm and eventual death to a vulnerable victim
  7. Crime is premeditated and ritualized
  8. Example would be Albert Fish

Based on his own confessions, Duncan matched every characteristic in the list above.

Mysopeds are the boogeymen. Duncan knew it, even if he didn't know the term for what he was. He knew he wasn't a typical pedophile -- in a sense he was right. He didn't really want to be bothered with grooming a child victim. He stalked, abducted, abused, and killed. As he proved with the Groene family, he also killed anyone who got in his way.

So there's your word for the day: mysoped. And you have a perfect(ly awful) example of a killer to put with the word -- in addition to Albert Fish and Westley Allan Dodd, just to name a few.